GPT-5.6 Sol pricing and routing profile
GPT-5.6 Sol from OpenAI lists at $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens, with a 1,050,000-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Tool callingStructured outputReasoning control
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $1.30 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $8.00 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $21.00 |
Before prompt caching. Try your own shape in the cost calculator.
Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for GPT-5.6 Sol. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Who serves GPT-5.6 Sol
| Host | Input / output per 1M | Log probabilities | Uptime, last 30 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | $1.00 / $5.00 | no | 100.0% |
| OpenAI | $2.00 / $10.00 | no | 100.0% |
| OpenAI | $4.00 / $20.00 | no | 100.0% |
| Azure | $4.00 / $20.00 | no | 100.0% |
| Azure | $4.40 / $22.00 | no | — |
| Amazon Bedrock | $4.40 / $22.00 | no | — |
| Azure | $4.40 / $22.00 | no | — |
A host that lists log probabilities may still omit them; Gimbix checks each one before relying on it.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below GPT-5.6 Sol that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Grok 4.7 | $1.60 / $4.80 | 36% |
| Qwen3.7 Max | $1.48 / $4.42 | 41% |
| GLM 5.1 | $1.40 / $4.40 | 43% |
| Qwen3.6 Max Preview | $1.03 / $6.16 | 44% |
| Grok 4.3 | $1.25 / $2.50 | 56% |
| Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent | $1.25 / $2.50 | 56% |
Compare GPT-5.6 Sol
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- GPT-5.6 Sol vs GPT-6 Astra
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs GPT-5.6 Terra
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- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Grok 4.7
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Kimi K3
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs GLM 5.3
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Mistral Large 3 2512
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Nova Premier 1.0
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Command A
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- GPT-5.6 Sol vs GPT-4.1 Mini
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs gpt-oss-120b
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs gpt-oss-20b
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Claude Haiku 4.5
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Gemma 4 31B
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs GLM 5.3 Flash
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Hy4 preview
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Nemotron 3 Ultra
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen3.8 Flash
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen3.7 Flash
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen3.8 27B
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs MiniMax M3
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Kimi K2.6
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Mistral Small 4
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Ministral 3 8B 2512
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Llama 4 Maverick
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Nova Lite 1.0
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Nova Micro 1.0
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Command R7B (12-2024)
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Phi 4
Questions
How much does GPT-5.6 Sol cost?
GPT-5.6 Sol lists at $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $8.00 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of GPT-5.6 Sol?
1,050,000 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace GPT-5.6 Sol?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match GPT-5.6 Sol on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.